

The world is awash in money. A $10 million purse proves it.
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.A $10 million purse? Believe it. A Hermès handbag owned by the late fashion icon Jane Birkin sold for that eye-popping, record-setting sum last summer at Sotheby’s in Paris.Now, if you can afford a $10 million pocketbook, there’s no doubt you have plenty of dough.
And the world is awash in money.“The rich are getting richer, faster than everyone else, and they are shaping the economy,” Liam Bailey of Knight Frank, the global real estate consultancy and estate agency, told Barron’s.Knight Frank just published its 20th annual wealth report—and the number of superrich is ballooning, especially in the U.S.Of 713,626 individuals around the globe with a net worth of more than $30 million, 35% live in the U.S. Knight Frank forecasts the U.S.
will be home to 41% of the world’s ultrawealthy by 2031.China and India are doing their part to reshape the global economy, too. China’s ultrawealthy population has climbed 23% in the past five years; India’s share is expected to grow by 27% in the next five years, the report said.A big reason for all this green is the digital economy—from the internet to artificial intelligence, says Bailey, who is Knight Frank’s global head of research.“The ability to scale businesses rapidly, and ideas quickly, is so much faster than we’ve ever seen,” he says.
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